Name, First Names:                Vanermen Hugo, Karel, Yvo

Date- & Place of Birth:            22.9.1949, Borgerhout

 

Current Position:

Endoscopic Mitral Valve Surgeon and Consultant for MICS

 

@ VUB, Brussels, Belgium

@ IMM, Paris, France

@ Klinik im Park, Zürich, Switzerland

@ Clinica Sant’Anna, Catanzaro, Italia

 

Patient Co-ordination: Agnes Cardella: cardella.agnes@gmail.com +32496238085

Legal Advise: jvanermen@gmail.com

 

<hugo_vanermen@yahoo.com>   +32475244383

minimitralrepair.org,   hugovanermen.blogspot.com/‎

 

Former Founder and Head of the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

                                               OLV Clinic, Moorselbaan 164 – 9300 Aalst

                                               Ever since 1980

MD Graduation :                    Medical Doctor, 1974

                                               KUL, Leuven, Great Distinction

Surgical training : 

           

            - General Surgery, from 01.08.1974 until 31.07.1976,

            Prof. Dr. A. Lacquet & Prof.Dr. J. Gruwez (Leuven, Belgium)

 

            - Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, from 1.8.1976 until 31.7.1980,

            Prof. Dr. G.Stalpaert & Prof. Dr. R. Suy (Leuven, Belgium)

 

            - Ennobled by H M Albert II, King of Belgium, with the title of Baron in 2006

 

 

NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS, AWARDS & HONORS

           

1. Appointed Resident in Cardiovascular Surgery, Saint-Raphael Clinic, KUL, 01.08.1979

2. Appointed Assistant -Head Cardiovascular Surgery, O.L.V. Clinic, Aalst, 01.08.1980

3. Appointed Supervisor of practical training, KUL, 15.11.1981

4. Member of  the European Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, 1982

5. Member of the Royal Belgian Society of Surgery, 18.6.1985

6. Appointed Head Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, O.L.V. Clinic, Aalst, 20.10.1987

7. Member of  the European Society for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 19.6.1990

8. Member of  the Medical Council - O.L.V. Clinic, Aalst, 1993

9. Founding Member Belgian Council for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 1996, Treasurer (1996-2001)

10. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board  of Heartport Inc., 1996

11. Reviewer Acta Chirurgica Belgica, 1997

12.  “Premio Internazionale Montevergine”, Capri, Hotel Quisisana, 11 Guigno 2000, to Dr Hugo Vanermen as ackowledgement for his pioneering work in the procedural development of endoscopic mitral valve surgery.

13. Member of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, June 2001

14. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of 3F-therapeutics

15. Recognition as Fellow of the European Board for Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

16. Active Member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, May First, 2002

17. Course Director of the Edwards Master of Valve Repair

18. Ennobled by H M Albert II, King of Belgium, with the title of Baron in 2006

19. Honorary Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fûr Thorax, Herz und Gefässchirurgie, Feb 2010

20. Honorary Member of the Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland March 2010

     

    PUBLISHED ARTICLES

More than 70 publications in various medical journals about the different techniques in Cardiac Surgery.

 

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

More than a thousand oral presentations (mostly about Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery) at congresses all over the world.

 

 

PROGRAM DIRECTOR and ORGANIZER

of WORKSHOPS,  SYMPOSIA,  LIFE-TELE-CONFERENCES

Program director and Organizer of various International Symposia about Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Minimal Invasive Surgery, . .. all over the world.``